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Baxter Springs continues to seek causes of water loss When the city replaced a water meter at the Baxter Springs Country Club that wasn’t accurately measuring water usage, the country club’s water bill increased beyond what it had budgeted. The council at a recent meeting agreed to reduce the country club’s water rate to $1.81 per 1,000 gallons of water used until April 2008. The rate is equal to the city’s cost plus 10 percent.
Warner said though it’s a reduced rate, the country club is paying more than it had been paying when the water meter wasn’t functioning correctly. Warner said one other commercial user with an inaccurate water meter had been identified and the meter has been replaced. He declined to name the user. At the meeting in May when Warner announced the loss of 100 million gallons of water, he said the city must pinpoint the cause before considering a water-rate increase. “We’ve got to know where the water loss is before we increase the citizens’ rates,” Warner said in May. He said Wednesday that enough progress has been made to allow for the water rates to be increased. “I think we’ve identified a lot of the areas” of water loss, Warner said. “I don’t think we can wait much longer to increase the rates.” Warner said the cost of water-treatment chemicals, electricity and other costs will make an increase necessary soon. He said he didn’t want to comment about the popularity among residents of a water-rate increase after approving reduced rates for the country club. Loss-reduction recorded The July 24 report states that unaccounted-for water loss was 18 percent of the amount pumped in June, compared with a 42 percent water loss in May. The report also states that close monitoring of water usage would continue. 
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